It's been one hell of a week...

As of yesterday we STILL had not heard anything from the insurance company. So, I decided to fax a letter to the insurance company and the place that they outsourced the adjusting of the property damage to. I must say, it was one HELL of a letter. 4 pages and I cited case law and Louisiana statutes both that threatened the possibility of punitive damages. REad: thousands of dollars. I faxed it yesterday morning. This morning, Keith got a call from the insurance lady and she was having issues getting the adjusting people to call her back to. She asked for the number to the most convenient rental car place and she was going to set something up. Keith called me for the number, I gave it to him and he called her back. 15 minutes later he got a call from someone that was going out to appraise the truck and they wanted to know if his license plate was still on it. I'm telling you, that letter needs to be printed in a law review journal or something ;)

In other, sadder news, Destiny broke her arm. And, we found out yesterday that it's been broken for 2 weeks now. Oh, CPS is going to LOVE this one--I'm sure they are still keeping dibs on us and all of our kids :) She had a trampoline accident and fell down and hit the bar. Hard. We took her to Lake After Hours 2 weeks ago, they xrayed it and told us it was just bruised. Fast forward 2 weeks where she gets in a collision at home plate during a softball game and we head to the emergency room and it's broken. She was excited about having a cast until she realized that she is going to be out of softball for 2 weeks, or 5 games. Then she decided she didn't really need one after all. :)

Brendan's team won their tournament this weekend. That's 3 tournaments so far with 2 first place finishes. Wow!

Updates

No info yet from the insurance company. Although I did finally talk with someone yesterday and let them know that Keith hasn't been going to work because he has no transportation. They sounded real concerned about that (mostly because they know they are going to have to pay his lost wages) so hopefully we'll get some kind of rental car this afternoon.

Brendan had a quasi scrimmage last night. I call it quasi because it only lasted an inning and a half before the bottom fell out of the sky. In related news, we bought him a new bat yesterday. $299.99 plus tax worth of new bat. Now, readers, THAT is love :) He used it yesterday and hit the ball to the warning track (about 240 feet) and had the wind not decided to stop blowing at the particular moment, it would have probably gone over the fence. Even though, we can consider that it was a legitimate hit and our investment, so far, is paying off.

The scrimmage has been rescheduled to Thursday night, a double header starting at 6 pm. Desi also has a game at 6 pm across town. Did I mention that we only have one freakin car? Somehow, someway I'm going to figure that one out.

Today is my mom and dad's anniversary. 32 years. wow.

Wreckage

Imagine waking up from a dead sleep at 5:45 am (15 minutes AFTER you are supposed to be up) to your house phone ringing. While I didn't find this PARTICULARLY odd, I was curious. See, Keith knows about my inability to get up in the morning so he calls religiously at 6am to make sure I'm up and moving around. But it's always at 6:00 on the dot. Never 6:01 or 5:59, but always 6. So to hear the phone ringing at 5:45 was odd. Our phone conversation went something like this:


Me: (Groggily) Good mornin' honey.

Him: Hey. You up?

Me: Yeah. Did you make coffee?

Him: No. I got in wreck.

Me: Haha. Ok, I'm up now I promise.

Him: No. Seriously. My truck is totalled.

Me: (Mentally making sure that I paid the insurance premiums for this month) OMG. Was it your fault?

Him: No, some guy rear ended me and turned the truck around in the other lane and then some chick hit me on the passenger side. My truck is really totalled.

Me: You're not lying huh? Are you ok?

Him: Yeah I'm fine but can you come and get me?

Me: Sure. Let me get the kids up and dressed and I'll be there shortly. Where are you?

Mad dash ensues to get kids up at ungodly hour of 6 am. And they protested. LOUDLY. But I got them up, dressed and to the babysitter and was headed to Keith by 6:05.

Arrived on the scene and it's not pretty. Truck is definitely totalled. Took Keith to work (amazingly he's fine...well, right now. I'm fairly certain that he will be hurting tomorrow though). Now, the dealings with the insurance company take place. THIS ought to be fun. At least I have a team of lawyers on my side willing to work for free to get me top dollar for his truck. Ugh.

Bi

A friend of mine asked another friend of mine if I was Bi the other day. Simply because my husband likes to sign in to my myspace page and make changes. She didn't bat an eye at the $250K year salary though......many funny conversations have come about this revelation. She was honestly upset that I had never "propositioned" her. LOL

Firsts

Brendan has his first baseball tourney this weekend. We lost both games on Saturday and then came back Sunday and beat the #1 ranked team. Then we lost the 2nd game. All in all it was a great start to the season. Brendan not only got a starting position, but he was also in the fourth batter slot. His knees were SHAKING when he got up to bat, but he did good.

Destiny had her first softball practice. Alls I can say is, It's going to be a loooooong season. She is heads and tails far above the rest of those little girls. She's bored. I mean, seriously, I'm not saying that 'cause she's my child but she is really too advanced for this team. But we'll have fun and we'll make it through and she'll be the star. Maybe the rest will come around....we'll see.

Nicolas also had his first T-Ball practice last night. It was sooooo freakin cute! I just LOVE watching those little ones get on the field and play ball. They run the wrong way, they pick flowers in the field, they turn cartwheels and play around. I wish I wouldn't have forgotten my video camera! So Nic comes up to bat, and he's probably by far the littlest one out there, and everybody is like "oh he's so tiiiiiny. that's is just precious." and then he picks up the bat and hits the ball to the fence. You should have heard the silence in the stands. Ok, so you can't really "hear" the silence, but it was a good 3 seconds before anybody said anything. And then he picked up another ball and did it again. I think he's going to have a blast!

Next weekend is our only weekend off between now and Mother's Day. I'm torn about what to do. I really really really want to go to Monroe and watch ULM play since it will be the last time we can do that. Literally. DJ is graduating this year and this will be our only weekend off and I really want to go. Since it's DJ's senior year I want to be able to experience that with him. While we were at Brendan's game on Sunday I randomly picked up my cell phone and asked my mom if DJ was pitching....she told me that I must have ESP because he just got on the field. I'm telling you, we have this connection that's just WEIRD. Anyway, I want to go. But Keith wants to stay home so that I (notice the I, not the we) can fix up the flowerbeds and get the yard cleaned up. Yuck. I rather pay somebody or not have flowers at all since we aren't home to enjoy them anyway.

I'm looking into hiring someone to come clean my house once a week or every two weeks. I can pick up the crap, and the cleaning would just be contained to bathrooms, living room, kitchen and my bedroom. Kids rooms don't count and they keep those pretty clean. I just don't have time to dust, mop, vacuum and clean the kitchen. To me it would be well worth $40 to pay someone to come in and do all that and a couple loads of laundry. If anyone knows anyone let me know!